[Macha]

With node this happens everywhere all the time hence the popularity of tools like nvm or fnm. At my current company we have projects that absolutely require java 8, or 11, and I'm sure we'll soon have Java 17 only projects, sometimes with corresponding needs regarding tomcat or maven etc. versions. It's also a common complaint with python and the most common solution seems to be a bunch of python3.x packages from your package repository, though there have been tools like tox or pyenv for this and others that try to combine solving this problem and virtualenv management.

That said, if you just want language generic toolchain management, asdf seems to have a much lower barrier to entry.

Personally I have been using nix as a homebrew replacement, because it allows me to sync my packages and versions between my personal Arch setup and my day job Mac OS setup with a single configuration